Opinion: Night at the ObamaCare Improv

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... I ... the ... stop me Obama the missed ration is trying and to rewrite Obamacare without going back to Congress for them to Opinion Journal James Freeman here filling in for Mary Kissel and were here winter rig or ... senior editorial writer ... covering Obamacare they yes ... below show the odd that ... they ... decided to go through the ... chronology year the president doesn't receives people in twenty ten saying you can keep your plans ... Obamacare has passed ... now of the change this week is that ... a lot of plans outlawed by the law ... are now ... legal again because ... of the head of the of ... Health and Human Services says here ... is what HHS says is that anyone who's had their plan cancel ... now qualifies Telefónica ... canceled as a result of Obamacare now qualifies for a hardship exemption from Obamacare ... so they they ... read all I would with great they are free to go without insurance without ... paying them and demanding tax if if they want to honor also opened up to a new category of health plans than are sold on the exchanges are called catastrophic plans ... were designed for people under thirty ... I'm so that ... the screws up the pricing of insurance it starts to ... while lying on the way to the problems but first before we just get past this little lovely ... picture you here ... aam most people think that ... the Congress writes a lot of President in accident By signing him ... and then add the children ... I make you wonder why did they go through the ... whole exercise of deceiving people and passing the law of linkages ... with this to be the right will remember Nancy policy famously said we have to pass a law to find a reason and she was actually wrong ... we need to go on this voyage of ... executive discovery to find out how the hell it's going to be changed ... amid day-to-day ad hoc basis in it can someone so for the semi that was ... when the executive branch ... starts Marie related losses without going back to Congress there must be some kind of ... you go rule of law problem in the the the issue so far is and that nobody is unharmed actively fight fight these ... in fear of businesses exempted from the mandate to provide insurance to employees ... you really have standing to sue their duty because you cannot be harmed ... here to it's it's really going to create a lot of losses for the insurance industry so they probably do have standing to sue ... we just found out about this last night ... so that everyone still kind of sorting through their options but I wouldn't be surprised to see some lawsuits here ... okay last thing quickly just on this issue the impact here this is obviously meant ... as another short-term friends and political fix to get Democrats in the Senate cover ... but as you're saying this is not ... this is not good for Obamacare if you believe in this system the three ... states can I mean it's completely reckless you Vardy got Republicans coming and saying whoa that the people was insurance is canceled qualifies for a hardship exemption why can't everybody get a hardship exemption ... and the economics of the exchanges don't work in the pack is many people's possible ... hike in there so giving people now ... salts a temporary political problem ... but over the longer term it it's really damaging even on the law's own terms ... so even ... even I mean not that long term next year this is going to mean relatively higher premiums in the exchanges that we wouldn't see ... it happening between them there for not signing up the right kinds of people did not signing up enough you people ... know McNally ensures that the price and political risk that the rules that they prepare for ... the change in any moment ... on the the the process of ... setting rates for twenty fifteen will be in ... the first quarter in in March or so they are approved by the summer so you were to start to see some really big price increases even beyond ones we've seen as a result of Obamacare in year one ... unbelievable place show